First Appearance: Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1-3 (1982)Significant Issues: All of Earth’s superheroes abducted by "the Unknown" & Grandmaster, twenty-four heroes selected & forced to fight in a "contest of champions" on behalf of "Unknown" & Grandmaster, individual matches won by Daredevil, Arabian Knight, Thing & Shamrock, overall contest won by Grandmaster, "Unknown" exposed as Death by Invisible Girl & Talisman, Grandmaster won right to resurrect Collector but learned he had to sacrifice his own life to do it, Grandmaster agreed to Death’s terms, Grandmaster slain & Collector resurrected, Earth’s heroes set free (Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1-3, 1982)

First Appearance and Origin: Giant-Size Man-Thing #4 (1975)Significant Issues: Moved to Cleveland neighborhood, sat in window of fourth floor apartment holding his Juice jar & considered conquering world, decided to just kill people instead, drank Juice, turned into giant Man-Frog, confronted Howard the Duck, shrank down to real frog size, lost human intellect, run over by police car (Giant-Size Man-Thing #4, 1975); in Hell, back in human form, holding Juice jar & sitting in window above Job’s Place where God was on a bender (Howard the Duck #5-6, 2002)

First Appearance: Menace #11 (1954)Origin: Menace #11 (1954); Agents of Atlas #6 (2007)Significant Issues: Built by unidentified professor in 1954, killed creator (Menace #11, 1954); by 1958, in sea, found by Namora, retrieved by Jimmy Woo, fixed by Marvel Boy, worked with G-Men, after team split up spent intervening decades with Plan Tzu/Yellow Claw, in modern day informed Gorilla Man of Woo being injured, helped gather G-Men back together to save Woo & investigate Atlas Foundation (Agents of Atlas #1-6, 2006-2007)

First Appearance: Wolverine #34 (1990)Significant Issues: Encountered Wolverine, killed Athabasca Ike (Wolverine #34, 1990); captured by Parvenue’s expedition, intended to be exhibited in casino (Wolverine #42, 1991); taken to Times Square, escaped with aid of Wolverine, hid in sewers (Wolverine #45-46, 1991); accompanied Albert & Elsie-Dee to Canada, found Wolverine’s skeleton, encountered Spiral (Wolverine #51-53, 1992); sent back in time by Spiral (Wolverine #84, 1994); helped Siksika vs Adversary, found new pack & left with them (Wolverine #86, 1994); pack frozen in past, defrosted in modern day, led attack on research station attended by Guardian & Vindicator, spared those within upon learning one was Wolverine (Wolverine #83-84, 1994)

First Appearance and Origin: Captain Marvel #17 (2001)Significant Issues: Pursued Thanos to learn where Death was hiding herself so he could destroy her, destroyed by Death (Captain Marvel #17-18, 2001)